[jiggawatts]

It’s still bad. Even as a totally amateur videographer making short clips of my holidays, YouTube is not good enough.

HDR processing takes months!

The SDR down conversion is “potato quality” even to my non-expert eyes, let alone a Hollywood colourist.

Etc…

[dansky]

Instead of YouTube's HDR->SDR conversion you are free to use your own conversion LUT with mkvmerge. As I posted above, here are some links for info:

- Workflow and a valuable LUT: https://www.wesleyknapp.com/blog/hdr

- Some DaVinci Resolve Settings to use on SDR monitors: https://youtu.be/4izJfgRtkZE (though I upload 4K60 HDR at 37.5Mbit) which is enough for me slow content.

[jiggawatts]

This only allows a single LUT for the entire video. For comparison, Resolve will perform Dolby Vision tone mapping from HDR to SDR on a clip-by-clip basis.